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Tilted Cat Head
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Originally Posted by bem
You seem to misunderstand.
Number-of-dates affect humans not nature. This is the issue.
Many things happened before the advent of numerical systems, but not so much as massive human-made destruction. This was a later development.
This is not about not being affected by nature, but by numbers. in pre-history no one would be anxious about 2012 or other number formalizations of time.
All people who were killed by exposure and predators would probably have a different opinion about everything, but I guess they wouldn't say most of the attacks were on a specific pattern of dates, or that one date become a symbol of an attack, or something like that, nor would they say that being eating by a dinasour is a human-made-destruction, unless someone drove tham into the animal's mouth.
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sure animals would understand something like a 28 day cycle where more nocturnal predators would be out hunting because other animals were out in larger numbers because it was easier to see. So if there was intelligence in the animal you'd peg it to the number 28?
Numbers are just a representation of something. Sure there are some cultures that are very wary of numbers, but there are many that are not at all. I'd say that numerical fears are passed on via nurture since there is no rational reason for nature to pass it on.
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